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Post by pussycat on May 7, 2020 14:11:23 GMT
I wish i had a tape deck at the moment. Even if it were just a mini boom box. Surprised yours lasted so long. Every tape player i’ve ever owned has eventually crapped out on me.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on May 7, 2020 23:21:28 GMT
I wish i had a tape deck at the moment. Even if it were just a mini boom box. Surprised yours lasted so long. Every tape player i’ve ever owned has eventually crapped out on me. my old TEAC was an Iron Horse with an Iron Will. 20 years of getting thrashed to shit on a daily basis before it finally cried no mas. Supposedly the gold standard is the Tascam mk ii (or one of the ii variants, cant remember) The go-to choice at the BBC for a million years. Coupla years ago had the chance to buy one online located just a town over from me but like a dithering putz I blew it and didnt close the deal.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Oct 27, 2020 8:54:33 GMT
Damnit I'm back on the cassette walkman. Splurged on a $70 Sony cracker after swearing black and blue I was done with the malfunctioning dinosaur cunts 2 years ago. Yep, this mp3 player will do me, hundreds of songs in it, push of a button, no more loading up my bag with 6 tapes each morning to last me throughout the day. Sure, it doesnt sound so bad I told myself. Then I realised last week I havent even charged the fucken thing THIS YEAR. FFS, i NEVER used to leave the house without my cassette walkman. If this mp3 cunt is making me lose interest in music then it has to go. Unacceptable. Plus the Neil Young lyrics on Psychedelic Pill album took up residence in my brain "Don't want my mp3 When you hear my song now You only get 5%"What % do we get from lp's vs tapes vs cd's vs mp3 anyway?
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Dec 19, 2020 3:40:47 GMT
Some random interent dudes speakers. Oh baby. The fireplace? Fuck the fireplace. If you had these speakers, fire would be for lightweights.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Dec 19, 2020 11:58:47 GMT
plan to run all tapes through my swank tape deck score before the 80's come calling and the beautiful black wood-panelled dual-cocked cunt up and fucken dies on me AL GREEN I'm still in love with you. so great but I've probably thrashed this release to fatigu AFGHAN WHIGS congregation. the guitar tone here sounds like total shit on the headphones. just hi-pitch squall. sounds fine out loud though, hardly notice it really the songs are so ace. AFGHAN WHIGS gentlemen. 1992, right smack bang in the middle of the grunge days, and they come out with this. That other early 90's sub pop stuff probably sounds dated to hell by now. not this iHomo. just timeless. ACDC jailbreak. title track is the only real stiffy 4 me here
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Jan 1, 2021 22:43:55 GMT
some other internet rando's setup. wftttttt duuuuude. I would NEVER get up off that rug. NEVER.
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Post by sukebegg on Jan 2, 2021 12:33:20 GMT
Looks like there's a pooch in the place, so teach it to fetch cans from the fridge and you're set...unless, is this Henry ROllins' set up? No beer and having to listen to Ruts bootlegs....naahhhhh
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Post by sukebegg on Jan 2, 2021 13:52:12 GMT
some other internet rando's setup. wftttttt duuuuude. I would NEVER get up off that rug. NEVER. And then ya pee on that white carpet!
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Jan 2, 2021 22:20:28 GMT
if that fucking dog sauntered past and casually cocked a leg for an absent-minded slash on those speakers... the little fucking cock would be going down the trash compacter. unless, is this Henry ROllins' set up? No beer and having to listen to Ruts bootlegs....naahhhhh Rollins 200K speakers:
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Jan 31, 2021 22:30:49 GMT
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Post by sukebegg on Feb 1, 2021 9:11:14 GMT
Dem' tapes. Japan must've been the only country with CD rental shops and the blank tape racks right by the register. I always felt the model in Japan was karaoke royalties - just a half-baked theory. Metal tapes were always precious though - "OK who merits getting recorded on this 120 min. oxide hexamadecimated full-range Dolby precision cassette from Maxell?" Those fuckers would get eaten all the same...I think my first walkman was probably 1982 ~ a Panasonic or worse, maybe an Aiwa. I went through a bunch over the next 15 years or so...
8 million all in Japan? I know y'all got more space up north Sprague, but where do you stash 4 million cassettes?
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Feb 1, 2021 11:33:22 GMT
Dem' tapes. Japan must've been the only country with CD rental shops and the blank tape racks right by the register. I always felt the model in Japan was karaoke royalties - just a half-baked theory. Metal tapes were always precious though - "OK who merits getting recorded on this 120 min. oxide hexamadecimated full-range Dolby precision cassette from Maxell?" Those fuckers would get eaten all the same...I think my first walkman was probably 1982 ~ a Panasonic or worse, maybe an Aiwa. I went through a bunch over the next 15 years or so... I had a couple of killer Aiwa walkmen late 80's. Sony always the go though. In fact it was only 2 years ago that I stopped... and then went crying back to ebay this year to buy another one. Shit just sounds too good. Fuck the "mp3" player I recall dashing around the 100 yen shops about 12 years back as the LAST of the 50 minute metal-biased tapes disappeared. Just buying up whatever stragglers they had from the shelves. Havent seen any since about 2008 now. Fucking disgraceful. No wonder young people are so unhappy and suicidal these days. It's their stupid "here, try listening to 5% of the song, you'll love it" smartphone music players. Miserable experience. I'm STILL buying some records that still have the familar green "Rental Record" sticker on them. Holy shit. Imagine that. Renting out a record to be - presumably - dubbed to cassette tape then returning the LP to the shop the next day. Japanese people really look after their records. Would never happen in the UK. Those translucent cunts treat their records like they treat their fucking teeth.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Jun 8, 2021 23:54:32 GMT
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Oct 22, 2021 9:20:50 GMT
Just stumbled across one of these down the road at the recycled store. 11,000 yen, was about to pull the trigger when the staff said the "bass is a bit low". That set the alarm bells off and I got cold feet. 1975, retailed for 68,000 yen
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Post by fuckface on Oct 24, 2021 9:36:43 GMT
Just stumbled across one of these down the road at the recycled store. 11,000 yen, was about to pull the trigger when the staff said the "bass is a bit low". That set the alarm bells off and I got cold feet. 1975, retailed for 68,000 yen i would've grabbed it. no qualms. dunno this exact model but i had a similar vintage and it had a fucking beautiful tone. you live in 12 room mansion or something, how much bass do you need?
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Post by nikkeisindex on Oct 24, 2021 18:54:42 GMT
That looks really nice. I try not to be a "gear guy." Once it works, I don't want to just pile on stuff, 1 in, 1 out, if need truly be. Still looks very nice, nice brand, nice price. I never really got into that over there. I still sort of regret not jumping on a $200 Technics 1200. I think gaijins flee and shit stuff at fire sale prices. But then I just would have had to find a way to get it back to America anyway... plus I already have one. But I want 2, because I'm a greedy American and want a 2nd nice turntable set up in my very grown-up office. That should accelerate concentration and workplace efficiently nicely...
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Oct 25, 2021 0:28:21 GMT
Yeah not much of a gear freak either. One in, one out is fine by me. i would've grabbed it. no qualms. dunno this exact model but i had a similar vintage and it had a fucking beautiful tone. you live in 12 room mansion or something, how much bass do you need? Goddamnit now you've got me second guessing myself. The warning bells were there though. I should stick with my spidey sense. 300 years in Japan has taught me that when a Japanese person says "the bass is a little low", in Japanese inscrutability that can easily be parsed to "this thing has no fucken bass at all shithead, consider yourself warned gaijin cuntface. In fact, the fucker will probably explode in flames like the 86 Challenger the instant you turn the fucken cunt on."
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Oct 25, 2021 9:08:27 GMT
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Post by sukebegg on Oct 25, 2021 9:28:02 GMT
1969!! Imagine how warrrrrmmmm the Stooges will sound...Hard Off? More like...
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Oct 25, 2021 9:50:25 GMT
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Nov 6, 2021 8:02:48 GMT
LOL, I'm sure Camp Leader would be elated if I came home with a pair of 7-foot high speakers that I'd stationed halfway towards the middle of the damn room....
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Nov 6, 2021 8:06:15 GMT
LOL. "Honey, but what about the fireplace?" "Heat? Heat is for lightweights."
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Post by nikkeisindex on Nov 6, 2021 16:21:50 GMT
At some point I wonder, do you really need that much firepower? My friend bought some $1000 speakers that aren't huge but can basically now match the volume of a loud live band. I honestly bring earplugs when I go over.
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Post by beta on Nov 8, 2021 22:50:04 GMT
LOL, I'm sure Camp Leader would be elated if I came home with a pair of 7-foot high speakers that I'd stationed halfway towards the middle of the damn room.... The warden here demanded my best studio monitors once it became obvious that they were better than anything she'd ever heard before. Doesn't want to go to the cinema anymore. "Better sound at home" is all I hear. Fair play to her. I have the lesser models in my home recording studio. They work very well so it's good. I might get another pair for the recording studio just to burn through money like the idiot fuckhead I really am.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Nov 9, 2021 0:36:05 GMT
The warden here demanded my best studio monitors once it became obvious that they were better than anything she'd ever heard before. Thats the thing isnt it. Once you hear that level you just CANNOT go back. Your ears are spoiled. I was quite content with my big ol' Pioneer boxy speakers. Then I plugged in my Sonabs. Oh dear. What have I been doing. Quite content with a shitty old turntable cartridge. Then I plugged in a moving coil Denon DL-110. Oh dear. So that's what music sounds like. Then the Denon stylus wears out a couple of years later. "I'm too broke to shell out another 20,000 yen. I'm no audiophile. Any 2,000 yen Audio Technica cart will do me fine"Literally 2 minutes in with the Audio Technica and it's "no, no, no, this will not stand, that's not even music, it's muffled and insulting. I cannot be expected to live in such aural squalor" Ridiculous. God knows what would happen if I heard a Mcintosh amp or some tube amp or some shit.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Nov 21, 2021 1:00:19 GMT
fahhhhk check out this sweet 70's tower of power...
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Nov 23, 2021 11:55:03 GMT
There's one of these at a recycled shop in town. Denon DP-1800 with a solid marble plinth. I tried to pick it up in the shop and it weighs a tonne. That marble plinth. Oh baby. I dont need a new record player. But damn that is sexy. Googled marble plinths and the jury seems out whether they provide much more of a vibration dampening effect than wood. Maybe a bit gimmicky but.... holy shit *edit just googled it: 16.5 kg
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Nov 27, 2021 5:24:15 GMT
ffs
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Nov 27, 2021 5:34:35 GMT
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Post by Ladyfingers on Nov 27, 2021 6:31:51 GMT
This is my setup. Nothing hugely fancy and I need a much bigger TV, but sounds pretty fucking great.
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